IHA case studies

    AHA Webinars

    Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

    May 11th, 2017
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    Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections After Implementation of Enteric Contact Precautions

    The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Reducing Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infections

    In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Reducing Length of Stay (LOS) to Meet Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) Targets

    The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Closing the Communication Loop

    Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...

    November 17th, 2014
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    Tuberculosis Among the Homeless in Kane County, Ill.

    Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

    June 1st, 2012
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